Transfer counselling of govt teachers begins, over 57,000 to attend

 Transfer counselling of govt teachers begins, over 57,000 to attend

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

25.01.2022

Chennai: More than 57,000 teachers and headmasters from government schools will attend the online transfer counselling which began on Monday. On the first day, 642 government higher secondary school headmasters applied to the counselling, 227 headmasters got transferred and 329 of them skipped and 89 were absent. The counsellingwill g o ontill February22.

Students from backward educa tional blocks, which have large teacher vacancies, might get teachers as the school education department identified 40 priority blocks. Teachers who opt for these blocksindistricts such a s Thiruvannamalai, Villupuram

, Krishnagiri, Kallakurichi will be given priority in counselling.

A Peter Raja of Tamil Na-du High and Higher School Headmasters' Association, said the department had shown all the vac ancies on the first day.

While 33,000 teachers, headmasters fromthe department applied to the counselling, 24,000 from the elementary education department applied for the transfer counselling

. "The counselling will be held purely based on merit and common guidelines. The priority blocks initiative will help fill vacancies in the educationally backward districts and remote places where teachers g enerally do not wish to go," an official from the school education department.

The department also will give preference to over 400 teachers who got p unishment transfers for participating in the strike during 2019.